Cuatrillo (capital: Ꜭ, small: ꜭ) (
Spanish for "little four") is a letter of several
colonial Mayan alphabets in the
Latin script that is based on the digit
4. It was invented by a
Franciscan friar,
Alonso de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent the
velar ejective consonant found in
Mayan languages, and is known as one of the
Parra letters.
A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic, , was used for the
alveolar ejective affricate found in the same languages.
The cuatrillo is encoded in Unicode at the code points and , respectively. The cuatrillo-commas are at and .
As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of the
Kʼicheʼ language in the Parra orthography: .
See also
*
Tresillo
References
External links
Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic PublicationsN3028: Proposal to add Mayanist Latin letters to the UCS
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4 Cuatrillo
Mayan languages